ABSTRACT
This paper is about the media case of Edward Snowden and conspiracy theory from perspective of young people in Croatia. This paper deals with Mannheim's notion of utopian mind which he defines as a state of mind that is incongruous „with the state of realty within which occurs“, but Croatia as a post-socialist country is a perfect example of liberal-humainarian utopia whose citizens see the western sphere as a perfect one. But this ideal is negated by conspiracy themes presented in the documentary film Citizenfou , as it is shown by the research conducted for this paper. Finally, this paper shows the connection between the film's discourse and narrative, and dominant hegemonic position of decoding media texts in a way of recognition of conspiracy theory elements by the target group.